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Personally, for the armor, I myself would buy a $15-$30 heavy duty round trash can made by Rubbermaid/Brute and use Wizard of Flights templates, cut them out of the can, and use an oven or heat gun to shape them. This will be relatively inexpensive, and have a nice looking thickness to it. As for the jetpack, I used foam board for mine and PVC pipe all according to Wizard of Flights jetpack templates. His are very accurate.

Personally, for the armor, I myself would buy a $15-$30 heavy duty round trash can made by Rubbermaid/Brute and use Wizard of Flights templates, cut them out of the can, and use an oven or heat gun to shape them. This will be relatively inexpensive, and have a nice looking thickness to it. As for the jetpack, I used foam board for mine and PVC pipe all according to Wizard of Flights jetpack templates. His are very accurate.

The only problem I see with using the trash can armor is paint adhering to it long term because of the type of plastic. I would recommend a sintra for the armor. It is easy to cut & form.

The helmet there are a number of these out there. I went with the one that "Skip" did that was base of Wizard of Flights templates. There are some inaccuracies about it but it does look decent. I did make some mods to it to help in some areas.

Well I picked up a big plastic tote and printed off Rafal's templates for the chest armor. I think I am going to use the plastic tote for my chest armor, and use Fierfek's peps for the collar, backplate, gaunts, and knees. Today I'm gunna try and heat and bend the chest armor pieces. Let's hope this goes well.

I was emailing Christian at MOW for some gloves and girth belt last night and I think I've decided I might pick up the jetpack through him. I'm not so sure I want to tackle that with pep.

I would personally recommend going with Rafalfett's templates. They are spot on, IMHO

I agree with RKD as well Raf's templates are awesome. But nothing wrong with WOF's either. They will both work well for you.

Here is the back armor & collar that I used. It is a modified Firefek file to look more accurate.

Here is the knee armor pep file that I designed up & used which were designed using WOF's templates that are much more accurate looking than Firefek's.

Here it the pep file for the rocket I designed & used which was designed using WOF's templates.

Firefek does fabulous work but the pep files that he has posted on the RPF for Boba Fett aren't all that accurate looking unless you use them for a base & modify highly modify them. The files that I sent you links for are pretty accurate looking & easy to work with. If you are looking at possible 501st accuracy is what you want.

The jetpack is a huge under taking but what satisfaction when it is done.

I agree with RKD as well Raf's templates are awesome. But nothing wrong with WOF's either. They will both work well for you.

Here is the back armor & collar that I used. It is a modified Firefek file to look more accurate.

Here is the knee armor pep file that I designed up & used which were designed using WOF's templates that are much more accurate looking than Firefek's.

Here it the pep file for the rocket I designed & used which was designed using WOF's templates.

Firefek does fabulous work but the pep files that he has posted on the RPF for Boba Fett aren't all that accurate looking unless you use them for a base & modify highly modify them. The files that I sent you links for are pretty accurate looking & easy to work with. If you are looking at possible 501st accuracy is what you want.

The jetpack is a huge under taking but what satisfaction when it is done.

MOW does fantastic work & great to work with. Highly recommend him.

Any questions on the pep files let me know.

Awesome. Is there any way I could get those from you in the .pdo formatted for A4. If you'd rather not give them out that's totally fine. It just helps me to have the model when I'm assembling peps.

I did make some mods to the back armor after getting it all together. The major thing was making the cut out in the bottom go further up & a little wider.

The knee armor has an inner pieces. Didn't really use them other than as a template for making pieces of architectural cardboard to lay on the inside to make it more rigid. Also did some trimming in areas to get shape the way I wanted.

The rocket I actually used a toilet paper roll holder through the middle section that has the ridges.

Just remember you have to be a little creative. The pep files aren't perfect in any way but I made them to what I could work with. If you have any questions let me know.